Getting started (n00b)

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Cool, i have GCC and a few text editors........as for what i'm looking to do.....not sure really, hoping to learn something new. I'm in the process of ditching Windoze and seriously getting into what a PC can do. Linux seems to have the perfect community for me

I've got a few installed and was wondering what people thought was a good one for a n00b like me....Emacs or XEmacs.....or are they no good for C/C++? or should i stick with something very basic whilst i'm learning?

Originally posted by DarkViper
so GCC is the best for Linux Programming eh? il hafta look into it!

gcc is all there is
if there is another it probably RUNS through gcc
gcc-gnu c compiler
it is the DEFAULT compiler on all new Linux systems
back in the day(when I started)
we used cc
and that sucked
gcc is similar but much better

in fact on newer versions I have noticed that you never need to use #include
only for local headerfiles never standard ones...

Oh, and btw, you can get different compilers for Linux. Gcc isn't the only one. Intel makes their own, and there are others. On top of that, if you wanna do RAD stuff, you can get Kylix 3, which does both C++ and Delphi now.

Originally posted by coreBuild Lynux Penguin, you really don't know anything do you?

Sorry to have to tell you, but basically Lynux-Penguin is right. Gcc is the actual compiler linux uses. Everything else is either a plugin or alias to gcc or a front end ide that uses gcc as the compiling engine. Gcc is even the compiler that the linux os and kernel are compiled with.

Not sure about the #include thing though. Maybe that is what you mean?